1. Add items to long term food storage
2. Blog 12 times (1/12)
3. Buy and hang a new magnet board
4. Buy an external hard drive and save pictures and important documents
5. Clean out and detail my car
6. Clean out closet and donate clothes I don’t wear
7. Comment on 5 different blogs a month (3/60)
8. Complete 21 day on CLEAN
9. Complete more goals than last year
10. Consolidate my student loans
11. Donate blood
12. Earn a dual teaching credential
13. Find a new job
14. Find a new way to do my hair
15. Finish Aaron’s mission scrap book
16. Get a massage
17. Get studio teaching license
18. Go 30 consecutive days without carbonated drinks
19. Go on a bike ride with Aaron
20. Go to 2 pro sports games (1/2)
21. Go to a shooting range
22. Go to Catalina Island
23. Go to Disneyland 10 times (0/10)
24. Go to the dentist
25. Go to the Getty Museum
26. Go to the temple 10 times (0/10)
27. Have family pictures taken with Chelsea
28. Make 5 home made gifts and give them away (0/5)
29. Make 5 things found on pintrest (0/5)
30. Make going to the gym a habit again
31. Make my own decorations for 3 different holidays (0/3)
32. Memorize all 13 articles of faith (4/13)
33. Move closer to Aaron’s work
34. Organize and clean the garage storage
35. Organize my scrapbook supplies
36. Organize under both beds
37. Learn 3 new recipes (0/3)
38. Print pictures and put in a photo album
39. Put my profile on Mormon.org
40. Read 15 new books (0/15)
41. Read 2 non-fiction books (0/2)
42. Read both General Conference Ensigns
43. Read D&C cover to cover
44. Reread
Jane Eyre
45. Scan mine and Aaron’s Patriarchal Blessings
46. Score a goal in a hockey game
47. Send out Christmas cards
48. Sew something for myself
49. Take the History CSET
50. Teach Chelsea 2 new tricks (0/2)
51. Visit 3 new places with Aaron
52. Write in my journal 24 times (0/24)
As you can see I've already completed one goal (Jane Eyer is an awesome book, if you haven't ready it you should!) and I have started on a few other goals. I hope I will get more done this year than I did last year! Wish me luck.
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My 2011Project 52 Wrap up.
Let’s see how I did…
1.Back up all our pictures
-I got as far as buying an external hard drive, but it wasn't compatible with a mac so I returned it.
2.Bear my testimony in sacrament meeting
-I was terrified and I cried through the whole thing, but I
did it
3.Blog 24 times this year
-only14/24
4.Build up our savings
-Feels good to have some rainy day money. I want to keep building it though.
5.Donate money to the Perpetual Education Fund
6.Double our food storage
-I didn't get anywhere close to doubling it, but I did add to
it and I learned how to use it, which is pretty important
7.Fill up my Jones bottle with change
-It’s not even a third of the way full, I don’t know why I
love collecting change, but I do.
8.Finish Aaron’s mission scrapbook
-I got a good chunk of it done, then I started teaching and
had no time to even think about it
9.Finish my Master’s degree
-It’s so nice to have that piece of paper!
10.Finish my nativity count-down
-Didn't even look at it all year
11.Finish putting together 72 hour kits
-Now I have to think about changing out some of the food
12.Get a collar made for Cali
-And for Chelsea
13.Get more stamps in my National Park Passport
-Thanks Yosemite for my stamp!
14.Go to a concert
-I’m really sad this didn’t happen, unless seeing the
JABAWKEEZ counts
15.Go to a UCLA football game
-I’m really shocked this didn’t happen. We have been going to games since we moved
back to California
16.Go to the beach 4 times
17.Go to the Temple 12 times
-Made it 8 times this year, I didn’t help that my recommend
expired and I didn’t get it renewed for 3 months
18.Keep up with going to the gym 3 times a week
-Not so much
19.Learn how to edit video
-I could have made this happen, but didn’t
20.Learn how to play the piano
-Nope
21.Learn how to read music
-Nope
22.Learn how to use photo-shop
-Nope
23.Make a box garden
-Nope, apparently a north facing balcony is not conducive to growing things
24.Make a DVD of our Europe trip
-Nope
25.Make morning prayers a habit
-It happens more, but its definitely not a habit yet
26.Master 3 new recipes (things that
Aaron will eat)
-Only 2 Mac N Cheese and Rolls
27. Memorize math facts
-I'm a terrible teacher, I still use my fingers to add and subtract... oh well28.Organize 2nd bedroom
29.Organize Aaron’s childhood photos into an album
-I put this off all year, then knocked it out in about an
hour on the 30th
30.Organize my closet
31. Organize my night stand
-It’s nice knowing where things are
32.Pay off the Malibu
-Yippee!
33.Plan a weekend getaway for Aaron and me
-It was in Paris34.Re-read Pride and Prejudice
-Oh Mister Darcy! I finished it just a few days ago
35.Reach my goal weight and stay there for at least a month
-Thanks to the Clean Diet
36.Read 15 new books
- Only 10/15
37.Read articles from the Ensign every month
-I did for the first 6 months I think, but forgot about it
38.Read every book club book
-All but 3 I think
39.Read the Book of Mormon cover to cover
-Done
40.Read the Book of Mormon for 30 consecutive days
-This was actually pretty easy
41.Receive a dual credential
I’ll do it this year
42.Run a 5 k
-I ran the whole thing!
43.Send out thank you notes
-I am terrible at these things
44.Sew something and give it away
-I made a few blankets and 2 “hooder hiders”
45.Sew something and wear it in public
-Made a skirt and wore it to Target, not sure if I’ll ever wear
it again
46.Start collecting books for my classroom library
47.Stick to my “monthly cleaning plan” for 6 months
-What cleaning plan?
48.Stop living in CHAOS (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome)
-Nope, I need at least a 30 min. notice before anyone is
allowed to come over
49.Submit my pictures to JonesSoda.com
-Nope
50.Visit Aaron’s grandparents once a month
-Burbank is far, but it’s worth it
51.Visit the dentist
-I tried, but he didn’t take my insurance
52.Write in my personal 52 times this year
-26/52
I
completed 23 out of 52 goals. As a
teacher I look at that and see an F. Oh
well, I was never to concerned about my grades.
I am currently working on making a list of goals for 2012. There will be a few unfinished 2011 goals making a
comeback for this year, hopefully I will make it happen this time around.
I haven’t completely forgotten about my goals I set way back in January, but almost. Luckily some of my goals were already on tack to happen so I have a few more to cross off my list. Yay for me!!!
Completed goals:
# 9. Finish my Master Degree! It is such a wonderful feeling to be done with school. I have my diploma and it is hanging in my classroom. That’s right I also got a job as a teacher! (more on that in my next post)
#12. Get a collar made for Cali. I did this when I got a collar made for our new puppy Chelsea.
#13. Get more stamps in my National Park Passport. I made Aaron stop at the ranger station in Yosemite to get one. The rangers were so excited to stamp it for me they forgot to charge us the $20 entrance fee!
#16. Go to the beach 4 times. Two of the time I went it was too cold to swim in the ocean, but I was still there!
#30. Organize my closet. When we put our house back on the market for the 3498439 time I decided it was time to purge and clean it out. Felt good to get it done.
#33. Plan a weekend get away for Aaron and I. We went to Vegas for his birthday. I didn’t do much of the planning, but I’m still counting it as done.
#46. Start collecting books for my classroom. I have a pretty good little start, although I still need sooo many more! Donations are welcome…
Goals in progress:
#3. Blog 24 time this year. I have 13 done with this post, so I’m over half way done.
#4. Build up our savings. Its slowly getting bigger, very slowly, but at least it’s not shrinking right?
#8. Finish Aaron’s mission scrapbook. I was working on it almost daily for a week, then I got a job and it stopped. But all the pictures are organized so it should be quick once I get going again
#15. Go to a UCLA foot ball game. Season stated a few weeks ago and I’m bugging Aaron to take me to their next home game.
# 17. Go to the temple 12 times. I’m getting my recommend renewed tomorrow and plan on going soon after. I think I’ve only gone about 4 times this year.
#39. Read the Book of Mormon cover to cover. I’m now in Helaman. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
#45. Sew something and wear it in public. I have a half made skirt I just need to take the time to finish it.
I know I wont finish all my goals, but I am so okay with that. It just feels good to see my accomplishments from this year! Go me!!






















